Posts tagged with "social media"

Under three-quarters of businesses have own websites Business

Under three-quarters of businesses have own websites

December 10th, 20182270 Just over 70 per cent of Cypriot companies had their own websites in 2018, slightly down over the previous year but under half of the 2,000 businesses surveyed, 44 per cent, have social media profiles, the statistical service Cystat said on Monday. The survey was conducted among companies with ten employees or more between January and...
Man remanded for blackmailing girls into sending nude photos Cyprus

Man remanded for blackmailing girls into sending nude photos

December 3rd, 20182568 A 20-year-old man from Nicosia was remanded on Monday for eight days after allegedly blackmailing three underage girls between the ages of 12 and 14 into send him their naked photos on social media. The man was arrested on Sunday after police received three reports against him by underage girls. According to the head of the police...
Like me in order to like you, love me in order to love you! Opinion

Like me in order to like you, love me in order to love you!

October 14th, 20181492 By Christos P. Panayiotides THE MOBILE telephone and all the applications or “apps”, which go with it, have compressed time and distance to negligible proportions, thus rendering communication, on a global scale, an easy, inexpensive and, most importantly, an instantaneous process. The possibilities of communicating via the...
7 tips in marketing your business through Social Media Sponsored Post

7 tips in marketing your business through Social Media

September 12th, 20185599 Modern society revolves around technology and mobile devices. These days, you can find your potential customers on social media platforms and promote your business. But there are still many marketers who do not know the best ways to market their business on social media. To help you, the list below contains effective practices that...
Facebook, Twitter face U.S. Congress over politics and the internet Tech & Science

Facebook, Twitter face U.S. Congress over politics and the internet

September 5th, 20181177 Top Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc executives will defend their companies before U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, with Facebook insisting it takes election interference seriously and Twitter denying its operations are influenced by politics. But no executive from Alphabet Inc's Google is expected to testify, after the company declined the...
White House probes Google after Trump accuses it of bias World

White House probes Google after Trump accuses it of bias

August 29th, 20181338 U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google's search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding "fair media" coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without providing evidence or giving details of action he might take. Trump's attack against the Alphabet Inc unit follows a string of grievances against...
Apple, YouTube, and others drop conspiracy theorist Jones Tech & Science

Apple, YouTube, and others drop conspiracy theorist Jones

August 7th, 20181196 Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc's YouTube, Facebook Inc and Spotify all took down podcasts and channels from U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, saying on Monday that the Infowars author had broken community standards. The sweeping moves are the broadest actions yet by internet companies that previously have suspended or removed some of the...
Politis the latest victim of social media threats Cyprus

Politis the latest victim of social media threats

August 1st, 20182343 By Lizzy Ioannidou Just days after Politis journalist Costas Constandinou received threats to his life via social media, the newspaper itself was a target of an online threat claiming that they would be ‘burnt alive’. A complaint was filed by Politis newspaper on July 29 against contract soldier Charalambos Zinonos, who...
Facebook is sued after stock plunge 'shocked' market Tech & Science

Facebook is sued after stock plunge 'shocked' market

July 28th, 20181988 Facebook Inc and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg were sued on Friday in what could be the first of many lawsuits over a disappointing earnings announcement by the social media company that wiped out about $120 billion of shareholder wealth. The complaint filed by shareholder James Kacouris in Manhattan federal court accused...
Cyprus included in Europol competition to track down fugitives Crime

Cyprus included in Europol competition to track down fugitives

July 11th, 20183977   Europol will launch a public ‘competition’ on Thursday morning to help them catch Europe’s most-wanted fugitives, among them one wanted by Cypriot authorities, by spreading their profiles across social media. The idea is that increasing the fugitives’ visibility will increase their chances of capture. Taking its...
Messages and hashtags: Thai cave rescue dominates social media World

Messages and hashtags: Thai cave rescue dominates social media

July 11th, 20181376 Audiences around the world cheered the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand with messages of support as the saga generated suggestions of help, prayers and -- finally -- expressions of relief. People turned to television, news sites and social media to keep up with the fate of the "Wild Boar" soccer team...
How to ‘fix’ social media without censorship Guest Columnist

How to ‘fix’ social media without censorship

June 24th, 20181332 By David Kaye The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal may have changed the way millions of people perceive the risks to privacy when they go online. But it could have obscured an equally profound digital age debate: widespread resistance to internet companies’ role as the global speech police of the digital age. The future of free...
Government warns of fake Anastasiades accounts on social media Cyprus

Government warns of fake Anastasiades accounts on social media

May 30th, 20181312 The government warned on Wednesday that in recent days accounts have appeared on social media under the name of President Nicos Anastasiades that are fake. “These accounts have nothing to do with the President of the Republic or the government,” a brief announcement said. In some cases, it added, the appropriated the status of...
Police chief rebukes media for their reporting of double murder Crime

Police chief rebukes media for their reporting of double murder

May 2nd, 20184366   The double murder in Nicosia some two weeks ago is on the way to being resolved, the chief of police said on Wednesday, before criticising the misleading way the brutal killings had been reported on mainstream and social media websites. “To put it bluntly, I think this incident should concern us all in relation with the...
Britain to regulate young people's use of social media Tech & Science

Britain to regulate young people's use of social media

April 23rd, 20183937 Britain's health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they do more to protect young people using their services. Hunt said the groups were "turning a blind eye" to the effect social media had on children's well-being - an accusation that comes as Facebook and others face heightened...
Personal data chief warns about social media Cyprus

Personal data chief warns about social media

April 13th, 20181824 Personal data commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Friday that people’s information should also be safeguarded on social media where serious violations have been detected recently. “This must stop at some point, hence the quite hefty fines my office has imposed recently in particular cases,” she told the Cyprus News...
EU tells Facebook: Sorry simply is not enough Tech & Science

EU tells Facebook: Sorry simply is not enough

April 12th, 20183358 European Union privacy watchdogs will look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political purposes following the scandal engulfing Facebook Inc. after data from nearly 87 million users was improperly accessed. "A multi-billion dollar social media platform saying it is sorry simply is not...
Cyprus chosen to help mould 'ideal EU citizens' using social media points system  Cyprus

Cyprus chosen to help mould 'ideal EU citizens' using social media points system 

April 1st, 20188416 CYPRUS has been chosen by Brussels for a new pilot programme to roll out a China-style Social Credit System that will publicly rate citizens on their behaviours using social media, data-collection techniques and new AI technologies. And you don’t even have to be an internet user to become part of the programme.  “Citizens’...
US visa applicants to be asked for social media history Americas

US visa applicants to be asked for social media history

March 30th, 20182435 The US government plans to collect social media history from nearly everyone who seeks entry into the United States, State Department proposals showed on Friday as part of President Donald Trump's policy of "extreme vetting." Most immigrant and non-immigrant visa applicants - about 14.7 million people - will be asked to list on a...
Tech giant Facebook in new bother over app Tech & Science

Tech giant Facebook in new bother over app

March 28th, 20183441 Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company. The U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California seeks status as a class action...
The art of predicting - a human vs machine battle? Tech & Science

The art of predicting - a human vs machine battle?

March 27th, 20184260 Forecasting is a tricky business, but Nesta isn’t backing down from the human-versus-machine battle. Forecasting is a fool’s errand, so why we do fallible humans persist in trying to peer into an uncertain future, especially when machines are outpacing us on so many other predictive tasks? People who should have known much better...
Sites listing traffic radar spots highly dangerous say police Cyprus

Sites listing traffic radar spots highly dangerous say police

February 7th, 20182761 Police on their Facebook page have condemned online sites where people can post and find police traffic radar detection locations, saying that sending out such messages endangers people’s lives. In their Facebook comment on Wednesday they gave the example of one Matheos S., who at some point posted the warning “Blue Smurfs near...
Turkey detains 300 people over criticism of Syrian offensive Turkey

Turkey detains 300 people over criticism of Syrian offensive

January 29th, 20182261 Turkey has detained more than 300 people for social media posts criticising its military offensive in Syria, the government said on Monday, a day after President Tayyip Erdogan accused doctors who opposed the campaign of betrayal. Since launching its 10-day-old air and ground offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria's...
Facebook to prioritize 'trustworthy' news based on surveys Tech & Science

Facebook to prioritize 'trustworthy' news based on surveys

January 22nd, 20182148 Facebook Inc will prioritize "trustworthy" news in its feed of social media posts, using member surveys to identify high-quality outlets and fight sensationalism and misinformation, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday. The company, which has more than 2 billion monthly users, said its members, not experts or Facebook...
"Fake news" crutch used by SE Asian leaders to control media Tech & Science

"Fake news" crutch used by SE Asian leaders to control media

January 22nd, 20182977 Governments across Southeast Asia have a history of using laws and the judiciary to curb press freedoms - now, they have found a handy crutch to lean on as they intensify clampdowns: U.S. President Donald Trump's "fake news" mantra. Most worrying to media rights advocates is that several countries are promoting new legislation or...
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